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author | Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de> |
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date | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:35:29 +0200 |
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/******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2005, 2008 IBM Corporation and others. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation *******************************************************************************/ module org.eclipse.core.databinding.conversion.IConverter; import java.lang.all; /** * A one-way converter. * * @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients. * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients. * Clients should subclass {@link Converter}. * * @since 1.0 * */ public interface IConverter { /** * Returns the type whose instances can be converted by this converter. The * return type is Object rather than Class to optionally support richer type * systems than the one provided by Java reflection. * * @return the type whose instances can be converted, or null if this * converter is untyped */ public Object getFromType(); /** * Returns the type to which this converter can convert. The return type is * Object rather than Class to optionally support richer type systems than * the one provided by Java reflection. * * @return the type to which this converter can convert, or null if this * converter is untyped */ public Object getToType(); /** * Returns the result of the conversion of the given object. * * @param fromObject * the object to convert, of type {@link #getFromType()} * @return the converted object, of type {@link #getToType()} */ public Object convert(Object fromObject); }